Students Win at Phi Beta Lambda Leadership Conference

Phi Beta Lambda Chapter Receives 28 Awards and 3 Chapter Awards

Release Date: Friday, April 3, 2009

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Chestnut Hill College students received 28 individual
and team awards while participating in the Phi
Beta Lambda Leadership Conference, competing against more than 200 students
from 23 colleges and universities across the state to earn the honor.
The following students received awards during the competition on April 3-4 in
Harrisburg, Pa. for Chestnut Hill:

The Chestnut Hill College
Phi Beta Lambda chapter also brought home
three awards: the Spirit Award, Chapter Advisor of the Year, and the Gold Seal
Chapter Award, which recognizes the best all around chapter of the year.
Criteria for the Gold Seal Chapter award include speakers sponsored, community
service and charitable fund raising.

“I am very proud of our students’ accomplishments
against unusually stiff competition this year,” says Robert Durney, M.B.A, club
advisor and assistant professor of business at the College. “I am thrilled and
very proud of our students having come so far in just a few years. It’s evidence
of a strong academic program and a dedicated and hard-working Business Club
team. Our awards have grown from five just three years ago to nearly thirty this
year at the State Leadership Conference. Furthermore, we have come into a
position of national prominence with nine individual and team finalists last
year in Atlanta. We have even greater expectations for nationals this year in
Anaheim.”

Students
who received first and second place awards at the Phi Beta Lambda Leadership Conference will be
eligible for competing at the national conference taking place in Anaheim,
California in June. Phi Beta Lambda, the
collegiate chapter of Future Business Leaders of America, is the largest student
business leadership organization in the country.

Chestnut Hill College celebrates its third annual Forgiveness Day by welcoming Shujaa Graham, board member of the Witness to Innocence Project, to speak on issues of racism, gang violence, the criminal justice system and his own life experiences.

The event is free and open to the public. Click here for more information.

CHC will host an Information Session about our Montessori Early Education Teacher Training programs on Sunday, April 12 at 1:00. The Program Director, faculty, and admissions staff will be there to explain the curriculum and entrance requirements. The Montessori certificate courses can be taken for graduate credit with a Master's Degree in Education or without the M.Ed. Applicants also may choose to earn the certificate through non-credit workshops. Register today or, if you have questions, contact Amy Boorse at GradAdmissions@chc.edu or 215.248.7097. Submit the one-page application form and the $55 fee will be waived!